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See an Employee Clearly

Review the public associations around an account before someone joins your team. Serum organizes the available followers and following into a report you can consider alongside the rest of your hiring process.

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Know who you are hiring

A CV and an interview show one part of a person. Public social connections may add context, especially for roles that represent your organization. Neither should be mistaken for the whole person.

Enter a public handle and choose the available followers, following, or both. Serum evaluates the accounts it can access without a password or notification.

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Public associations, categorized

Every account they follow is scanned and flagged: hate and extremism, NSFW, thirst traps, crypto spam, and low-quality accounts. You get a percentage breakdown instead of a vague impression.

This matters most for roles that carry your brand in public: anyone client-facing, anyone posting under your name, anyone senior enough that their feed reads as yours.

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If they claim an audience, check it

Hiring a creator, a social lead, or anyone whose reach is part of the pitch? The audit shows how much of their following is real people and how much is bots, purchased, or inactive.

You see the same realness and engagement numbers brands use to vet influencers, so the reach on the CV can be verified rather than taken on trust.

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Public data only

The report uses public-account information. We do not access private messages, private-account content, or account credentials, and Serum does not notify the person.

How you use it is your call. Employment screening is regulated differently depending on where you operate, so treat this as one input and follow your own hiring rules.

Give the question somewhere to land.

Serum organizes each available account, then lets you move from the overall pattern to the accounts behind it.

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